Happy Fathers Day

An interesting Fathers Day essay from John Kaag, in The Stone:

"...Parents are flawed or triumphant, but never exactly in the ways our children sometimes imagine. I wish, very much, that my father had been there to set the record straight, or at least to tame my fantasies and fears. I don’t want the whole truth (that, I am sure, is too much to ask), but a story that everyone can live with. This is what I want, at least for Becca..."

And see The Dreadful Dads of Existentialism...*

Me, then... and now.


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1. Phil Oliver Retweeted John Kaag

   “The most necessary thing in life is the tolerance, patience, regard, and love of neighbour, of which everyone stands in need, and which, therefore, every man owes to his fellow’”-thus spake dour Schopenhauer, who shoved his elderly neighbor down the stairs. “Dreadful” indeed.

   Phil Oliver added,

   
   

   John Kaag @JohnKaag

   In lead up to Father's Day, a piece on the Dreadful Dads of existentialism. A piece I

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2.  with Clancy Martin in lead up to HIKING WITH NIETZSCHE (Sept. FSG) @fsgbooks @Skye_Cleary @philosophybites https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-childless-fathers-of-existentialism-teach-real-dads …